Home / bulletins Microsoft Security Advisory (2501696): Vulnerability in MHTML Could Allow Information Disclosure
Posted on 03 February 2011
Revision Note: V1.0 (January 28, 2011): Advisory published.Summary: Microsoft is investigating new public reports of a vulnerability in all supported editions of Microsoft Windows. The vulnerability could allow an attacker to cause a victim to run malicious scripts when visiting various Web sites, resulting in information disclosure. This impact is similar to server-side cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities. Microsoft is aware of published information and proof-of-concept code that attempts to exploit this vulnerability. At this time, Microsoft has not seen any indications of active exploitation of the vulnerability.
